So I’ve been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU’s in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they’re moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I’ve never had a linux gaming pc so I don’t know how much that changes things. I don’t want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I’ll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

  • HorseFD@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I believe it’s the most stable rolling release.

    You could also look at the Fedora-based Nobara which is designed specifically for gaming.

    Both come with Gnome and KDE versions. They’re both RPM based, in case you were looking for a deb-based distro.

    • JoshCodesOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I tried Nobara once and it doesn’t play nicely with my computers secure boot. It didn’t recognise it as a valid boot disk. I never got further than that since every other distro allowed me to boot. OpenSUSE would be a good one to try, I appreciate it’s a stable rolling release! It almost sounds perfect!

    • somegeek
      2·
      1 year ago

      Installing nvidia drivers on opensuse was a major pain in the ass for me.

      • HorseFD@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        What issue did you have? It was very straight forward for me. Nvidia have a repo specifically for OpenSUSE. You just need to add the repo and install the driver.

        • somegeek
          1·
          1 year ago

          First Iinstalled, and then my system wouldnt boot into gui. And then I fixed it by doing a btrfs rollback and then couldn’t uninstall the nvidiai repo no matter what I did and it would get installed with zypper dup.